#New Intern Seeking Guidance

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quasi yarrow
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Hey everyone! 👋 I’m a new intern here and I’ve been with the team for about 3 weeks now. I’ve just completed Windows Admin and PowerShell courses on Udemy and am looking to continue growing my skills. Are there any specific projects or tasks I can work on to improve my PowerShell expertise?

Also, how proficient should I be in PowerShell before transitioning to Azure Cloud? My goal is to eventually pursue a career as a sysadmin or cloud engineer after graduation. Any advice or suggestions for a fresh grad in this field?

Thanks a lot! 😊

vernal orbit
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You haven't said what it is you do, sys admin is inferred, but that covers a lot of ground.

Use it day-to-day for your normal work where possible and practical. Pick tasks to automate that you and your team do often manually. Account creation automation frequently comes up (so often that it's a wonder there's anywhere that hasn't already automated...), so do auditing and clean-up tasks.

Azure does not require PowerShell; it can be helpful, but how much so depends on which bit of Azure you mean, it too covers a lot of ground. Either way, there's no proficiency threshold.

quasi yarrow
# vernal orbit You haven't said what it is you do, sys admin is inferred, but that covers a lot...

Apologies for not providing enough context earlier. The reason I asked is that my intern role was described as being focused on DevOps Hybrid Cloud, but the tasks I’ve been given for the scope are mainly related to Windows Admin and only a little PowerShell. As for Azure, I'm unsure if I’ll get the chance to work on related tasks, but it is part of my learning path from Udemy (my mentor recommended it). I’m just trying to figure out if there’s anything additional I can do to speed up the process and gain more exposure to Azure and cloud-related tasks. Thanks~

quasi yarrow
torpid phoenix
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Get me the latest warning and error events on three boxes at once. how would you discover non microsoft/windows/system application relevant services or processes on a windows box?

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how would you get data from 100 boxes?

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azure cloud isn't all that special AFAIK. i would think a core skill would be working with and debugging rest API calls.

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so things like what is a post? what is a response header? what is application/json?

nova trout
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Levels:

  1. Writing scripts to automate your common tasks
  2. Your scripts take appropriate parameters so you can reuse without editing
  3. Your scripts include error handling for common cases, to help newbies/non-scripters understand why they failed
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I agree that Azure Cloud isn't inherently PowerShell, but I feel differently about it (probably mostly because of how we do things at work).

In my world, the core Azure cloud competency (i.e. what I want in a new hire) is understanding infrastructure as code, and being able to relate the declaration of a resource in code to the actual resource in the Azure portal and in PowerShell.

This is mostly just about being able to read enough code to figure out the type of resource created and what the name is, and then guessing (aka using get-command/get-help to find) what the command for fetching that resource is in PowerShell.

Full points only when you can finding and understand Azure's troubleshooting tools for that given resource (whether in the portal or from PowerShell)

Bonus points for being able to write or code-review IaC languages ;-